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Quaker Ancestry

My Children’s Quaker Heritage

Last night after watching “Who Do You Think You Are” with
Zooey Deschanel’s Quaker families, I decided to take a closer look at my Quaker
families. All four of my children’s great grandmothers and two great
grandfathers have Quaker ancestry:

9.Woolman- Burlington, NJ,
his grandson, John Woolman, in 1743 refused to draw up a bill of sale for a
slave. He devoted his life convincing other Quakers that slavery was wrong. In
1746 he visited each Quaker slave holder in PA., convincing them it was wrong
to have slaves, then he went to the Quaker families in the South to convince
them, in 1760 or 1772 the Quakers banned slave ownership. This John Woolman was nephew of Georgia's ancestor, Mary Woolman Hunt.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woolman

7.Cook-Peter Cook and Elinor Norman from Cheshire,
England, The Frandley MM
in England
provided the money for their passage to America
with their 6 children in 1713, Peter died enroute and Elinor arrived in PA.
with the children, her infant dying a few days later, Chester Co., PA., London
Grove MM, and York Co., PA., Warrington MM

8.Edge-Cheshire, England, Chester Co., PA

9.Garey- Talbot Co., MD., Third Haven MM, Calvert Co., MD., the Cliffs MM, my 8th great grandmother, Elizabeth Garey Harwood, married Wenlock Christison as her second husband. My line of ancestry is from her marriage to Harwood, but much has been written about Wenlock Christison and being banished from Massachuettes, and whipped because he stood up to defend {accused} female witches, stating it was wrong. Here is a link to his story: http://b-womeninamericanhistory17.blogspot.com/2013/10/witches-wenlock-christison-price-paid.html

10.Harry- Hugh Harry ap Owen- his father was an Owen from
Wales, Birmingham, Chester Co., PA., ancestors of 37th President Richard Nixon.

9.Taylor- Peter, age 17, arrived from England
in 1682 on the Friendship with his brother. He is an accepted ancestor in THE
WELCOME SOCIETY as one who came over in Penn’s fleet, Chester Co., PA., Chester
MM

10.Thornton- Chester Co., PA.

11.Williams- Chatham Co., NC., Rocky Road MM

Rutherford Davis:

1.Robert Owen and Jane Vaughn- from Wales
to Duck Creek, New Castle, Delaware,
older couple, died a few months after they arrived.

About Me

I have been researching my family and my husband's family for some time now. In my research I have been able to trace most of our families from England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Moravia, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. The first were the colonial New England families on my dad's side, and the Appalachians and colonial Tidewater Virginia on my Mom's side, we have French Huguenots to New Amsterdam and Pennsylvania, Anabaptist, Quakers,Mennonites, Puritans,Baptist, Methodist,Presbyterians, Lutherans, Moravians. Most of our ancestors came to Colonial America and helped start towns and build churches, fought in all the wars. I also have paper trails to European Kings, and have 8 of the 25 signers of the Magna Carta along with King John, that were ancestors of my colonial American English ancestors, no way to know if it is true, as being that far back there could be a child born out of wedlock, but as far as paper trails go, I do have that.I'm going to use this blog to tell their stories and maybe to get help with my brick walls.